If you want to see a little short snippet of the original Clutch Cargo, rent Pulp Fiction.
When Christopher Walken visits young “Butch”, the child is watching Clutch Cargo on TV, and you get to see a few seconds of the bizarre combination of real lips on a motionless cartoon drawing.
Damn you Phase42 for making me admit this!
I’ve been taping OLN’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia this year, and every night I program the VCR to record the next days stage. Pretty simple, huh? Except that if I’m not careful setting the day, I can easily set the thing to record on Thursday, May 19th 2005 rather than Thursday, May 20th 2004. So I get home only to find the VCR sitting there, waiting to start recording in 12 months.
Why do VCR makers do this? Does anyone program a VCR a year in advance? What do you do, subscribe to to the Super Duper Platinum edition of TV Guide for the listings?
Mom: “Oh, no, that’s not Filboid Studge you’re eating.”
Dad (aghast as he stares at his cereal bowl): “Not Filboid Studge? What is it?”
Mom: “It’s new, improved Filboid Studge.”
What annoys me to no end is the- old people doing “young” things- joke. Grandma and Grandpa having sex or swearing or spiking their hair or piercing their tongues. It’s not funny. And if it ever was, the joke has been so driven into the ground its time to stop.
Advertisement:
Hi, I’m a famous celebrity! Oh wow this product is nifty! Buy it because I say so!
Only one word: blech
**Comedy that needs to die: ** Anything along the ESP/ESPN lines.
What is the cut-off age for having sex? I don’t want to continue to do “young things” like that past my time.
Phedre- that’s exactly why I put young in quotes and why these jokes irritate me so much. They are condescending and ageist. Surprise-- older people do swear and have sex,etc. So why is this funny? It’s like saying, let’s all point and laugh at the old people who don’t fall into our sterotype of what old people should be.
Dang it, I saw your link without reading it closely and hoped it would be an online clip. But now that I think about it maybe there is a snippet of it somewhere online.
Unfortunately my link doesn’t include Slug’s great drawing, which was a ScoobyDoo type dog, drawn cartoon style. Near the mouth was superimposed a very human looking pair of lips, probably female, together with a very human set of teeth. It was creepy, for the mouth was very sexy in a cartoon sort of way.
Any standup comic who has a bit about air travel is a hack.
The message board at Commercials I Hate explores all these issues at great length. DumbDaddy seems thankfully to be falling out of fashion.
Any ad or comedy bit that contains a deep voice growling: “Sunday, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!!”
Advertising technique that needs to die: Any auto dealership ad featuring the owner wearing funny clothes, playing an instrument, or otherwise behaving like an ass.
We know you are a wealthy, rapacious weasel. Casting yourself as a lovable moron fools no one.
By Grabthar’s hammer… what savings.
The home-made-looking ads that run on local cable… either pay for a commercial or don’t, but they look incredibly cheesy and probably drive people AWAY from the businesses.
BAD Jokes: Anything about ‘My mother’s so fat…’ or 'so I’m sittin in the plane…"
BAD Ads: 'My special underpants are sooo absorbant…I can swim and I won’t get wet…! OH and tampon ads…We know what they are…We know what they’re for…Get over it already…there’s starting to be a shortage of blue water anyway!
Ah, I misunderstood your intention. I totally agree with you. I hope to have an active and exciting sex life right up to the end.
Not really “racist jokes” in general, but one subcategory of racial joke that you’re guaranteed to hear if you’re watching any African-American talent/variety show … the “white people do something in a manner that’s very nerdy, while black people do it in a way that’s cooler” observation.
The classic … white men walking.
“Now, white people walk all stiff n’ shit, like they got a pole up their butt or something. (Imitation of a Kansas accent) ‘Hi, my name’s Myron, and I’m white, and I’ve got a stick up my butt.’ We black people walk all cool and shit, like we better lubricated, know what I’m saying?”
I think the reason why “white men walking” is a staple of black comedy is because it never fails to get laughs. Those Night at the Apollo-like shows usually cut to a scene of the audience, specifically one showing several black women flailing their arms and falling over each other in hysterics, after a black-white comparison.
Thanks for the link - I loved it!
Another thing about the VCR programming: yes, it’s true that the joke is not funny anymore because it’s been done to death. However, I just want to say that I am a professional editor-- I work with different kinds of tape decks every day–and I still can not figure out most consumer VCRs.
I believe that VCRs, like most consumer electronics, have been “dumbed down” to the point of being almost impossible to operate. IOW, manufacturers have tried to make these devices “auto-everything”. And those of us who want a button or switch for every feature are lost when the gizmo tries to do everything for us when WE DON’T WANT IT TO!!!